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On Thursday, September 8, 2022 NYC public schools reopen. Many of the CoVid guidelines of the prior public school year have been modified, so copy and paste the following link for an update. https://www.schools.nyc.gov/school-life/health-and-wellness/covid-information/health-and-safety-in...
Man, the Republicans are nonstop with the immigrants this week. “Vermin!”“Diluting our blood!”“Murderers and rapists!”“Puppy killers!” Oh wait, that last one’s a Republican governor. Anyway, listening to the Repubs, it’s clear immigrants are responsible for all the badness of mod...
change the mind of the person to whom you are responding, but many more impressionable online views need to see both sides of every argument. Do it for them. Not responding at all to propaganda and disinformation is tantamount to surrendering the battlefield to the enemies of truth and ...
"President Biden's executive order today is a home run for public safety," said John Feinblatt, president of Everytown for Gun Safety. "This is the latest example of President Biden's leadership on gun safety, and we're proud to stand with him as he takes robust action to help close ...
Jonathan Metzl, director of Vanderbilt University Center for Medicine, Health, and Society and an expert on gun violence, says the gun debate is getting people to the polls because public anger is at a boiling point because of school shootings and other mass shootings. Leaders have to engage ...
"Everyone that is heavily committed to both sides of the issue believes that they are absolutely right. And this is the problem," he said. "These over-committed viewpoints are actually one of the main reasons why we do not have better results for both gun rights and public safety....
It used to be that schools, churches and other places of worship, as well as certain other public places such as the malls, were safe places for children and for families to do things together. Not anymore. President & Co-Founder Gregory A. Cendana of Can’t Stop! Won’t Stop! Consul...
“Progressive” Americans believe that a great deal of racial scurrying around is somehow good for us, and they work themselves into self-righteous frenzies over the Japanese compulsion to draw boundaries between themselves and others. Of course, an insistence on boundaries is one of Japan’s grea...
This case, like the one against his wife, is set totest the limitsof who is responsible for a mass shooting. Prosecutors aiming toexpand the scope of blamein mass shootings have used anunusual and novel legal strategyby arguing the shooter’s parents are responsible for the deaths because th...